Heavy Quark Potentials and Quarkonia Binding

Abstract

I review recent progress in studying in-medium modification of inter-quark forces at finite temperature in lattice QCD. Some applications to the problem of quarkonium binding in potential models is also discussed.

Comments: Invited plenary talk presented at Hard Probes 2004, International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High Energy Nuclear Collisions, Nov. 4-10, 2004, Ericeira, Portugal